Cd stuck in new Imac

Got a core 2 Imac i'm looking at and a cd seems to be stuck in the slot loading drive, Any ideas on how to get it out? holding eject on the keyboard does nothing. There doesn't seem to be a pinhole I can use either.

Apple wanted to charge the customer £200 to look at the machine and I said I would give it a go thinking it would be easy.

Is this a design flaw? I have seen alot of people having the same problem online

I don't really want to dismantle the whole Imac and I don't really want to spend hours on this only for the problem to reoccur lol

Ive tried a knife, bending a blanking plate, tweezers, but the drive seems to be in locked position ive lost count of the amount of obscenities I have thrown at the thing.

Apple must be onto a winner though with this fault lol

Any ideas guys?

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kalebksp

Try restarting the computer and holding the mouse button down while it's booting up.

msteinhilber

I thought Mac's were supposed to be problem free, easy to use, and user friendly???

Anyways, My wife has an Imac and I've run into that before. There is a manual eject hole in the slot load drives, it's just inside the slot on the right (on her's at least). Here's a link to a picture: iMac (Slot Loading): How to Manually Eject a CD-ROM Disc

paintb4707

This might sound stupid since I don't really know crap about Macs but did you try dropping the CD on the trash bin to force an eject? I never used any eject key, didn't even know there was one lol.

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ally_uk wrote: »

Is this a design flaw? I have seen alot of people having the same problem online

Yeah clearly went a bit too far with the minimalistic approach.

I've had the same problem with my Mini shortly after I got it, to be fair with an old crappy backup CD and although the holding down the mouse button while booting worked for me, I ran into another option while searching for a solution. Far from high-tech but you might want to give it a shot: get a creditcard or similar, add some double-sided tape on it and start fishing... good luck!

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